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Cannabis becoming a turn-off for Phuket tourism
Gary Boyle, Published on 20/06/2025
» Businesses in Phuket say widespread use of cannabis on the southern tourist island — home to 1,500 weed shops — has started to have a negative impact on tourism in Thailand.
New bill plans to keep cannabis legal
Gary Boyle, Published on 20/09/2024
» Thailand has proposed a new bill to regulate its cannabis industry and restrict marijuana uses to health and medical purposes, the latest effort to control recreational smoking after several policy u-turns.
Thailand signals another U-turn on cannabis
Gary Boyle, Published on 24/07/2024
» Thailand will work towards controlling the use of cannabis through laws instead of re-listing it as a narcotic, according to Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, in yet another policy U-turn.
PM: Cannabis to be relisted as a narcotic by year-end
Gary Boyle, Published on 09/05/2024
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Wednesday said that cannabis would be relisted as a narcotic by the end of 2024.
Buying cannabis in Thailand may get harder
Gary Boyle, Published on 12/05/2023
» The days of easily buying marijuana in Thailand may soon be over.
VIDEO: Top Stories of 2022
Gary Boyle, Published on 30/12/2022
» A review of the biggest stories of 2022
Cannabis rules changed
Gary Boyle, Published on 14/11/2022
» The government has slightly revised rules on the sale and use of cannabis as a “controlled herb” amid concern about recreational drug use.
VIDEO: This Week's Top Stories July 29
Gary Boyle, Published on 29/07/2022
» This week: Monkeypox runner, cannabis confusion, Covid concern and 'dead' man's new ID
Cannabis policy 'won't be axed'
Gary Boyle, Published on 27/07/2022
» Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has refused to back down from the move to decriminalise cannabis despite mounting calls for the policy to be immediately suspended.
Weed warning from Singapore, S Korea
Gary Boyle, Published on 30/06/2022
» Thai embassies in South Korea and Singapore have warned travellers from Thailand not to bring cannabis-based products or cannabis extracts with them. Otherwise, they may face a jail term or even the death penalty.